anaheim-gazette 1930-05-29

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. PROTECTION AGAINST WAR The policy of developing domestic resources and domestic commerce, rather than that of seeking prosperity in world markets, has been a vital factor in preserving the peace of the United States. We have in this country the greatest free trade area in the world. We have resources sufficient to serve as the basis of wealth creation adequate for our population. We have created here a high standard of living for the masses, and we have preserved it by preventing the destructive competition of foreign industry based upon labor costs insufficient to maintain working populations above the level of mere subsistence. To surrender this home market to the cheap labor exploiters in foreign lands, whether foreign or domestic in ownership, would be first of all to paralyze our own industry. All the unemployment existing in the United States today is due to excessive importations made cheap by cheapening the workers whose toll enters into these commodities. To seek to remedy this unemployment by seeking foreign markets, is to enter into world-wide competition with these same cheap labor products. To do this is to come into commercial conflict the world around with other industrial nations, and thus to breed the causes of war. The World War would probably not have come except, as the result of the keen commercial world-wide rivalry of the great industrial powers of Europe. They sought special zones of influence, colonies, special favors in foreign markets. Their competition in sales and in shipping became intense. This caused the ill will which eventuated in the war. MERCHANT MARINE PARITY One of the reasons given why the United States cannot achieve actual parity with Great Britain through equality in tonnage is that Britain outclasses us in naval bases and in her merchant fleet. So far as naval bases are concerned probably nothing can be done about them, as it would be rather difficult to persuade England to give up any of them and there is no prospect that Uncle Sam can or will build any for herself. But so far as merchant ships are concerned it is another story. We are undoubtedly inferior to Great Britain in the tonnage of our merchant fleet. But there is no reason why we cannot build our merchant marine up to the point where it will be the equal of any in the world. There is no limitation on merchant vessels in the naval treaty. So if Uncle Sam wants to overcome this handicap there is nothing to prevent his doing it. Indeed a good start has already been made. Our shipyards are now getting busy and give promise, in the near future, of doing their bit toward restoring prosperity. Through the Jones-White shipping law the government is aiding with mail contracts and already a number of fine liners are being built or will be put under construction in the near future. Here is one way, therefore, that our naval efficiency can be increased outside the naval treaty and it is a method to which the most ardent pacifist cannot object unless he happens to be one of the hopeless internationalists who believe that Uncle Sam ought to surrender the shipping business of the world to Europe. For a first class merchant marine is not only an essential part of our naval fleet in time of war, it is a necessary element to our economic safety in time of peace. Certainly a prosperous American merchant marine will serve to protect us against any possible gouging in foreign freight rates on the part of an international shipping trust which might easily be formed by European shipping interests in case there were no American competition. And certainly our merchant marine might save our economic stability in time of international crisis when into these commodities. To seek to remedy this unemployment by seeking foreign markets, is to enter into world-wide competition with these same cheap labor products. To do this is to come into commercial conflict the world around with other industrial nations, and thus to breed the causes of war. The World War would probably not have come except, as the result of the keen commercial world-wide rivalry of the great industrial powers of Europe. They sought special zones of influence, colonies, special favors in foreign markets. Their competition in sales and in shipping became intense. This caused the ill will which eventuated in the war. Now it is proposed we shall follow this course. We are told that if we protect our own markets, we cannot successfully fight for markets abroad. We are told that we must make large exports of capital. We must become entangled in world economics and world politics to a degree hitherto unknown to us. In following such a course we are walking straight into the jaws of war. We have a world of our own, as yet far from being fully developed. There are ample calls for the capital here at home that we are exporting in vast quantities abroad, all the time involving ourselves further and further in the economic rivalries of foreign industrial powers. We are even told that we cannot in view of our position as a competitor for world trade, afford to so formulate our tariff rates that our own employment and standard of living may be maintained. Prestige Some of the naval construction argument that I built up to the allotment of auxiliary ships only for this is a smoke so over other reasons the American navy apparently assures treaty signatories naval needs than associated in the tion that our claimional, that it resumes titles of national on the promptings. Nothing is furthel the realities of the evident to all Ambers of those mills controlling purpose United States from navy. We are not tige only we show the Washington station conference time we had in prerful capital ship We surrendered or take of establish treaty limitation We let prestige enough capital-share us tonnage Britain in that cathteen or fourteer Mercover, we faction of auxiliaries selves, by pursuin related to neither far behind Great Britain the new and highly tion of 10,000-ton The United States mullity rather than long and futile purbe attained through importing other sideration and far ended at Geneva falsely accuse the prestige by build conceded to us as doubtedly like to it comes to spending vert the new blue actual ships. Our naval police regulated navy, kept a means of natio have ended unil naval construction able to bear the b much to do so, be most ardent pacifist cannot object unless he happens to be one of the hopeless internationalists who believe that Uncle Sam ought to surrender the shipping business of the world to Europe. For a first class merchant marine is not only an essential part of our naval fleet in time of war, it is a necessary element to our economic safety in time of peace. Certainly a prosperous American merchant marine will serve to protect us against any possible gouging in foreign freight rates on the part of an international shipping trust which might easily be formed by European shipping interests in case there were no American competition. And certainly our merchant marine might save our economic stability in time of international crisis when European shipping was employed elsewhere and European nations had no ships to spare for the moving of American farm and manufactured products. PEACE AND THE TARIFF Madame Roland cried: "O, Liberty what crimes are committed in they name." With equal truth it may be said: "O, Peace, what idiocies are suggested in thy name." The latest "peace" suggestion is one advanced by a woman contributor to the Scripps-Howard papers, ardent advocates of the policy of creating unemployment in the United States by ensuring the displacement of American production by foreign cheap-labor production. If we insist, this writer argues, on protecting our own markets by compelling alien capital to pay a tariff approximating the difference between American and foreign labor costs, in other words, if we object to having our standards of wages and living destroyed by exposing them to the unequal competition of lower foreign standards, then the rest of the world will get so peevish that we will become involved in war. We should keep our markets open to foreign cheap-labor products even though this means that our own workers must accept reduced wages or be out of a job, in the hope that we may fare abroad and conquer foreign markets. This is a prescription for war and not for peace. The commercial war for foreign markets created the ill-will which brought on the World War. Military and naval competition followed intense commercial world competition. The more we become involved in overseas commercial and financial contention, instead of attending to our own knitting here at home and giving only incidental attention to foreign markets, the more likelihood of our becoming involved in war. The less we become involved in European rivalires and contentions, the better the chance of our remaining at peace. Yet self-styled pacifists in the United States are the loudest shouters in the cause of involving the United States in the war-breeding system of Europe. ANAHEIM GAZETTE And She’s Out of Reach — By Albert T. Reid MAD DOG! WELL, JEE-ROO-SLEM! — AGNES, HE WONT BITE YOU. COME ON DOWN — YOU DONT KNOW WHAT A SHOW YOU’RE MAKIN! U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FEDERAL BANK ACT - PERMITS LOAN TO BUSINESS FARM FIGURES IN RED INK TARIFF FOR BUSINESS PLANS FOR FARM RELIEFT Albert T. Reid AUTOCASTER Prestige Or Security Some of the advocates of subratio petition than any other power. Having contributed so largely to setting a limit, in the interest of international stabilization and confidence it would be folly a score of factors requiring quick decision, Biscalluz points out. There are traffic signals that may be different Prestige Or Security Some of the advocates of subratio naval construction are now making the argument that if the United States built up to the London conference's allotment of auxiliaries it would be doing so only for purposes of prestige. This is a smoke screen intended to cover over other reasons for wishing to keep the American navy below treaty parity. It apparently assumes that the other treaty signatories have greater actual naval needs than we have. It has been associated in the past with the contention that our claim of parity is irrational, that it rests, not on the necessities of national defense, but merely on the promptings of national pride. Nothing is further than this from the realities of the situation, as must be evident to all Americans except members of those minority groups whose controlling purpose is to prevent the United States from having a first-class navy. We are not seeking naval prestige only we should never have called the Washington naval armament limitation conference of 1921-22. At that time we had in prospect the most powerful capital ship fleet in the world. We surrendered our advantage for the sake of establishing the principle of treaty limitation of warship tonnage. We let prestige slide and scrapped enough capital-ship construction to insure us tonnage inferiority to Great Britain in that category for the next thirteen or fourteen years. Moreover, we failed to secure limitation of auxiliaries and soon found ourselves, by pursuing a policy of inaction related to neither prestige nor security, far behind Great Britain and Japan in the new and highly important classification of 10,000-ton 8-inch gun cruisers. The United States showed national humility rather than national pride in its long and futile pursuit of a parity not to be attained through its own effort but by importing others for political consideration and favors. That pursuit ended at Geneva in 1927. Those who falsely accuse the nation of seeking prestige by building up to the limit conceded to us at London would undoubtedly like to see it resumed when it comes to spending the money to convert the new blueprint auxiliaries into actual ships. Our naval policy aims at a treaty-regulated navy, kept at full strength as a means of national protection. We have ended unlimited competition in naval construction and have sacrificed able to bear the burdens of such commu­ch to do so, because we were better petition than any other power. Having contributed so largely to setting a limit, in the interest of international stabilization and confidence, it would be folly not to build up to the London treaty tonnage level. Nowhere is inferiority in strength punished so promptly and disastrously as at sea. Our naval needs are as great as those of any other naval power. We have more wealth than any other nation. We occupy an insular position, our shores facing the two great oceans. Our foreign trade is practically equal to that of Great Britain, even including the latter's trade with the dominions and colonies. Our sea-borne commerce, including constwise commerce, has passed her by a broad margin. We are beginning to create a merchant marine which will rival hers. Though the relations between the United States and Great Britain are friendly and will in all probability remain so, it is as important, in view of our place and mission in the world as well as hers, that the two navies should be kept on the plane of treaty equality. The chief result of the London conference was the extension of this equality to all classes of warships and when the treaty is ratified it will become the unavoidable duty of the United States to live up to its obligations and benefits. Educate the Driver The main factor in all automobile accidents is the driver. If he can be educated to be more careful, there will be fewer deaths. This is the opinion of Eugene Biscalluz, superintendent of the California Highway Patrol, who says that with the lack of opportunity to train drivers it is remarkable that there are so many good ones. "The carpenter can estimate without measurement the length of a board to fit a place," says Biscalluz. "The watchmaker may make a delicate adjustment without gauges, but in none of these is there involved the question of speeds." "Just think of the fineness of coordination required in even normal driving. We see an automobile cross the path of another, say to a speed of 30 miles an hour. They pass with an 8 foot clearance and we consider it normal driving. Did you ever stop to think they were less than a tenth of a second from collision and possible death?" When the average driver in a strange city approaches an intersection he has a score of factors requiring quick de­claision, Biscalluz points out. There are traffic signals that may be different from those to which he is accustomed, route signs to follow, other automobiles travelling at different speeds, pedestrians with many notions. "The first step toward accurate driving is simplification," he said. This includes: 1. Uniform simplified traffic control. 2. Uniform laws which are definite, reasonable and practicable of obedience. 3. Highways designed to carry automobile traffic. 4. Automobiles with flexible and easy control. "Our big problem is to teach the public good driving rules and regulations, and to instill into the great mass of drivers the will to prevent accidents," he continued. "To learn safe driving, the individual must do a little reasoning for himself." "To make the public know how to drive well involves a sales campaign. Sales methods must be used—through the press, the radio, the service club, the forum. Sales methods must be adopted—first create the demand by bringing clearly before the public the useless accident toll; second, prove to them that your idea is good by making it appear not only the reasonable but the self-evident solution." Deposits in Banks Gross deposits in state banks of California stood at $1,427,649,489.13 on March 27, a decrease of $44,994,298.93 from last December 31, according to a report of State Bank Superintendent Will C. Wood. The decline in California bank deposits was remarkably small for the period, as compared with the decline throughout the country. Wood said. The decrease averaged less than 3 per cent. Just how young our republic is can be realized by the fact that only a few days ago a real Daughter of the American Revolution died in Michigan at the age of ninety-nine years. Her name was Helen M. Barrett and she was the youngest child of Johannes Van Dosen of Steuben, N. Y., who was a veteran of the Battle of Saratoga. Eight real daughters of the Revolution survive her. And yet they picture Uncle Sam as a rather ancient individual with lang whiskers. Mahatma Gandhi is not the first pacifist who had original ideas on how to keep his country out of war. ended at Geneva in 1927. Those who falsely accuse the nation of seeking prestige by building up to the limit conceded to us at London would undoubtedly like to see it resumed when it comes to spending the money to convert the new blueprint auxiliaries into actual ships. Our naval policy aims at a treaty-regulated navy, kept at full strength as a means of national protection. We have ended unlimited competition in naval construction and have sacrificed able to bear the burdens of such commuch to do so, because we were better Just think of the fineness of co-ordination required in even normal driving. We see an automobile cross the path of another, say to a speed of 30 miles an hour. They pass with an 8 foot clearance and we consider it normal driving. Did you ever stop to think they were less than a tenth of a second from collision and possible death? When the average driver in a strange city approaches an intersection he has BUS STOP PINKY! PLEASE DON'T STARE LIKE THAT IT'S ALL RIGHT, MOTHER! I'M NOT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING! I'M JUST LOOKING! Pinky Dinky JINGLES! FRESH BATHER GALLAS, ALEXANDRA WILLIAMS, OUR LITTLE GEORGIA ROWE TOOK A SPACE AND HOE TO PLANT A GARDEN FULL OF SEEDS WHICH GREW UP TO A PATCH OF WEEDS. OBSERVATIONS LOVE LETTERS LEAVE LINGERING LOOPHOLES Any good looking young man, who suddenly rises to fame, is lucky if he did his love making over the telephone. ROCKING THE BOAT When a movie man receives $2000 per week and marries, and then loses his job, and the wife goes home to mother, it does not necessarily mean that they have "quit," but it looks darned suspicious. TAKING THE GAFF GRACEFULLY And now in some society circles it is quite proper to admit, after questioning, that you lost in that late stock blowup. NO FORWARDING ADDRESS Bill—What do you make out of this: When an important eye witness to a fatal auto accident disappears? Jim—Well, you see, mebbe the man is away on his honeymoon, has a lapse of memory, or perhaps he formed a contest. GONE HAYWIRE—and NO FOOLIN' That old law, recently resurrected, and that 5 and 10 combination appears to be full cousins. Should they both be "vigorously" enforced there would be more persons inside looking out than persons outside looking in. HE'S IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW A high powered salesman "agreed" to sell tracts of desert land to unsuspecting cash customers. After he reaped in their money it is said he failed to deliver the land. The harvest was good while it lasted, but the jury separated the wheat from the chaff, and the man is said to be a mere hull of his former self after going through the judicial mill. MEANING PERHAPS, HE COULD WIN IN A WALK Now that the elections have arrived again, a certain gentleman, in speaking of his possible candidacy for a high office, has again liberated that famous phrase, "I do not choose to run." NOT VERY CLEAR CLEWS MEANING PERHAPS, HE COULD WIN IN A WALK Now that the elections have arrived again, a certain gentleman, in speaking of his possible candidacy for a high office, has again liberated that famous phrase, "I do not choose to run." NOT VERY CLEAR CLEWS A sensational murder case that has been lying dormant for several years in another county, came to light awhile back when politics warmed up a bit; but really it appears as mysterious as the identity of the guy who struck Billy Paterson, or as uncertain as the opening date of the Boulder Dam. BRUSHING AWAY THE COBWEBS Some of the high powered Columnists should file diagrams, or something, with some of their wise cracks so a fella could figure out what it is all about. EAT 'EM WHILE THERE'RE HOT It appears there are many men making melodies, for the jazzy mirthquakes. There is such a demand for the solos and duets that the composers are burning the midnight oil. A fella rises up in the rumble seat to say: There being so many songs they ought to be hung up in bunches like bananas; and he says some of the ballads are like butter-flies—which are beautiful while they last, but they don't live long; and yet again he allows some of the hits are like the paper napkins—which are used only once. KEEPING AHEAD OF THE HOUNDS Once a man stopped his car away out on a lonely road, and another man asked him why he had steel fenders over his tires. He said that kept them from being puckured by bullets. And he had bullet proof glass all around the boat. "What is your business?" the man was asked. "Who, me? I'm a rum runner." Oh! BURNT CHILD DREADS THE FIRE One of the experts on stocks, after the blowout, summed up by saying; "There is a downward trend in prices." It is said some stocks are as useful as a last year's calendar. YOU MEAN, MISTER, THEY ARE NOT SPRING CHICKENS? The man in the rumble seat chirps that the young ladies who smoke cigarets in public do that very thing to make a fella think they are "tough." POOR RULE THAT WON'T WORK BOTH WAYS A philosopher says that cooperative marketing is all right. The producers get better results through that commendable system. But, listen, buddy, he says also, that cooperation should extend to the employees, who handle the producers products. In other words, the employees of the associations should share in the benefits when prices are good; but they also should share in the losses when prices are bad. Not a bad idea. Think it "ovah." THE HELPING HAND Just about the time Santa Claus was flying around a man in another town told his wife he would quit his job before he would POOR RULE THAT WON'T WORK BOTH WAYS A philosopher says that cooperative marketing is all right. The producers get better results through that commendable system. But, listen, buddy, he says also, that cooperation should extend to the employees, who handle the producers products. In other words, the employees of the associations should share in the benefits when prices are good; but they also should share in the loses when prices are bad. Not a bad idea. Think it "ovah." THE HELPING HAND Just about the time Santa Claus was flying around a man in another town told his wife he would quit his job before he would support her. Later the judge gave him a six months job—on the rockpile. YOU SEE, IT'S JUST LIKE THIS It is said some guys when they land in jail get heart failure, and want to get out. And yet again it would be worse if they got the measles and broke out. THERE SHOULD BE NO FAVORITES If they ever make the buyer as guilty as the seller, Uncle Ruben wonders if they will pinch the big fellow, too. FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES After everything is said and done that stock crash consisted in great part what is paper profits. The high prices were dangling in the air. Stockholders could have sold and grabbed some of the velvet before the blowout, but they liked to gamble and did not cash in. When the stock slid downward, they had just a lot of empty promises—and the nest egg gone. LOOKING UP Now that the long skirt is back again a lot of fellers are wondering if street cars are going to lower their steps, too. PULLING CHESTNUTS OUT OF THE FIRE If you read the paper closely you should have noticed where that hide and seek "general" down in a Southern Republic it is said received quite a wad to start something or other there awhile back. BITES HAND THAT FEEDS HIM In order to get the race track ready for the rush below the border, quite a few Americans were put on the job. The natives went on a strike and the regular troopers were called out to stop the racket. Believe it if you want to, without the Americans things down there would be slim pickings. Now look: Muricho travarjo, Muncho dinero, muncho frijoles.